*Text: 2 Pet. 1: 3 *
“By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence” (NLT)
Our God is powerful, the bible declares that power belongs to Him – “God has spoken once, Twice I have heard this: That power belongs to God” (Psa. 62: 11). God through His power accomplishes much in our life. Through the greatness of His power enemies submit to us (Psa. 66: 3), through His power we receive inner strength for service and our text adds to the list of what the power can do, it says that through the power of God we have everything we need for living a godly life.
One of the major demand of God from all His children is that we must be holy just as He is holy (1 Pet. 1: 16). Knowing that God will not place any demand on His children without first making provision to ensure that they have what it takes to meet the demand, it is not surprising that we get this assurance from the scriptures. God knows that we can never by our power fulfil His desire for us to be holy or to live godly lives and so He made the necessary provision for us. At salvation, He programmed into our lives all that we need to live godly lives in this world thereby bringing glory to Him.
Having made this provision for us therefore, no child of God has any justification whatsoever not to live godly in this world. Today people including Christians are full of excuses why they are unable to live right. They say that the world is too corrupt and that corruption is everywhere and this corruption is so strong that it makes it practically impossible to live godly, some say that the level of sexual perversion in the world is so bad that it is difficult for anyone with blood in his veins to be free. All these however is not true, but a grand deception from hell to keep Christians away from living godly lives. The truth is that no matter how morally bankrupt the world may have become or the level of corruption and ungodliness in the world, those who belong to God and desire to be godly can still do so conveniently because God’s provision for them will adequately empower them to do so, if they want to.
You do not have to live a life of compromise, you do not have to struggle with sin anymore, you can conveniently resist the pressure to do wrong and instead live right. It all depends on you, if you really want to. That temptation need not overcome you, if you don’t want to fall into it, you need not succumb to that pressure to accept or to give bribe, you can be different in a good way. Like the apostle Paul affirmed, you can say “No” to ungodliness and worldly lust and instead live soberly and righteously in this world (Titus 2: 12).
To do this however you must break away from every ungodly influence around your life, it is an ungodly yoke and the bible warns against that, telling us to come out from among them and be separate (2 Cor. 6: 17). You must then begin to take your stand against all ungodliness around you and embrace godliness instead trusting God and His word, and you will become a light for God in your world. Shalom
Prayer Points
1. Father you are the God of power, I give you praise for the great things that your power has accomplished in my life, in my environment and all over the world
2. Father thank you for the provisions you have made for me to successfully live a godly life in this ungodly world
3. Father by your grace I break away from every deception from hell to hinder me from living godly life in Jesus name
4. Father I receive grace to be totally free from the life of compromise in Jesus name
5. Father I break away from every ungodly influence around my life, I separate myself from all ungodly yoke and I live for you daily in Jesus name. Amen
